PREFACE 



Most of the racing stones I have read had more to do 

 with showing how some otherwise uninteresting person, 

 who hved upon the precarious product of his cunning, 

 had performed a great coup in the betting, and often 

 by methods somewhat irregular, to say the least. The 

 merits of the great race-horses seem of secondary im- 

 portance. The leading turfmen and legislators are 

 ignored to show the acuteness of some individual whose 

 only title to distinction is his recklessness with money he 

 never earned. 



Whoever expects to find this a volume of that de- 

 scription will be disappointed. Betting will be treated 

 as an incident of racing— not as its object. The great 

 races and the great race-horses, the leading owners, 

 trainers, and jockeys of the past forty years afford 

 ample material of general interest with which to fill a 

 volume without going into the details of their betting, 

 which is a personal matter and concerns them alone. 



The object of this volume is to record the career of 



